On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:

> A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions 
> can be accessed individually.  This can be useful in case of emergency,
> but you would not normally want to do this as your mirrors will get out
> of sync.

So if one disk fails I can take out the other disk and put in an other
machine and mount the partitions?  And everything should work?


> > Why can't one put a filesystem on it before the raid process?
> 
> The horse goes _before_ the cart.  

:)


Rudy
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